From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
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Lighting a portrait with a speedlight
From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
Lighting a portrait with a speedlight
- I'm here with Francis, who's a mixed martial artist. And what we're going to do is use our speedlights to emulate what a studio strobes can do. Now let's break it down a little bit. First thing I did, was I metered each of the lights. So I have my settings set. And I'll dial that into the camera. But here's what's really cool. How about you stand right like this. You're going to take your spot. What I want to do is show you what each one of these lights are going to do independently. So I'm going to shut each of the lights off and only fire one at a time. So this way you could see where the light is hitting our subject. So I'm going to shut this one off. And I'll just leave this one on. And I'll shut my main light off. So how about you strike your pose. Now what I like to do, the very first thing, is to take a shot with zero light whatsoever. What this is going to prove is that none of the ambient light is going to contaminate the scene. So I'm going to take a shot of Francis…
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